Resistance Devs Call it Quits on Franchise

Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price had that succinct quote for VG247 this morning, putting a tidy bit of closure on one of the better shooter franchises of this console generation.

While the series faced stiff competition at both ends of the cycle, it featured Insomniac's typically fun assortment of weaponry and solid (if a little mushy) gunplay. Despite review scores to the contrary, I felt the franchise improved as it went along… though perhaps not enough relative to its fierce competition.

Insomniac is now focused on Overstrike, a four-player co-op shooter. Details on the title are scarce, though I can offer this pretty great video from E3:

Overstrike seems to be borrowing from Borderlands and The Terminator, and, of course, features Insomniac's flair for new and imaginative weapon systems.

There's currently not a release date for the game.

As for the Resistance franchise, it now heads to other developers. Nihilistic's Resistance: Burning Skies, for example, is an upcoming PlayStation Vita game currently slated for a summer 2012 release.